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Man Pays For Cross-Country Trip Using Bacon As Currency

An anonymous reader writes in with a story about the power of bacon."Travel can be expensive. One man is using a unique way to pay for a trip as a challenge. Pennsylvania comedian Josh Sankey is on a mission to make a cross-country road trip from New York to Los Angeles with no other currency but bacon. Sankey isn't carrying any cash or credit cards as he makes his cross-country trip. He is paying for everything from gas to lodging by using uncooked bacon as currency. He set off on his trip with 3,000 pounds of the popular meat and he seems to be getting good deals with it so far."

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  1. He's going international next. by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's going to try this in Israel.

    Then Iran.

    Now that would be comedy.

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    1. Re:He's going international next. by xlsior · · Score: 5, Funny

      What's the exchange rate for Canadian bacon?

    2. Re:He's going international next. by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Those who would exchange delicious bacon for a little temporary safety deserve neither bacon nor safety.

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    3. Re:He's going international next. by circletimessquare · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary bacon... mmm... bacon. Sorry, what was I saying?"

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  2. Bacon! by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Funny

    'Cause bitcoin is so 2011.

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    1. Re:Bacon! by vuke69 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Bacoin?

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  3. Is this country great or what? by mveloso · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean seriously, he's going to travel 3000 miles with nothing but bacon. Sure it's corporate sponsored, but so what?

    Go ahead and live the dream!

    Bacon - is there anything it can't do?

    So good it was banned by two religions.

  4. Kevin Bacon! by TaoPhoenix · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone find him and get a statement.

    Can you buy a dinner with Kevin Bacon with bacon?

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  5. Re:Slashdot's done. Put a fork in it by Brad1138 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lighten up Francis

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  6. complication by tunabomber · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have a feeling that this will come to an abrupt end once he reaches bear country. The bears are really hungry where I live (in the southwest), which is kind of on the way to L.A.

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  7. If he's married... by guttentag · · Score: 5, Funny

    He may find that he's divorced when he gets to L.A. "He's always talking about how much he's got but he never brings home the bacon."

  8. Re:Haven't you seen the price of bacon lately? by mooingyak · · Score: 3, Funny

    I didn't RTFA, but if they give him all 3000 lbs at once it could be much more challenging.

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  9. Re:Bacon -- One of the Basic Food Groups by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would you like a side of bacon with that moral outrage?

  10. Re:Bacon -- One of the Basic Food Groups by MagusSlurpy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or once he arrived he saw the big check they had cut him.

    No, I'm not saying PETA is right - I'm just saying that for every time PETA has lied to me, so has a corrupt politician.

    Frankly, I'll eat tasty critters even if I know they have suffered. I think the adrenaline in their systems when they are painfully slaughtered makes them tastier.

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  11. Re:Bacon -- One of the Basic Food Groups by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Funny

    4) Turd sandwich - If you haven't tried it, you don't know what you are missing -- really.

    Knowledge is overrated.

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  12. 1.03 in Baccoin by kawabago · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's the new online currency using virtual bacon.